Friends of the San Juans

Friends primary goals are to foster wild and healthy shorelines, promote thriving and sustainable communities, conserve forests, farmlands, freshwater and prairie habitats, and ensure the health of the marine ecosystem. Friends uses science to inform decisions that conserve the countys environment and economy. Friends works locally and throughout the region using innovative public-private partnerships, applied science, legal advocacy, and community-based initiatives to protect the land, water and sea for those of us here today and for future generations. Friends of the San Juans respectfully honors the fact that this beautiful place we strive to protect and restore is comprised of the ancestral lands, waters, and natural resources of the Coast Salish peoples. These Tribes have cared for and stewarded the San Juan Islands and the Salish Sea since time immemorialand continue to do soand we honor their inherent, aboriginal, and treaty rights that have been passed down from generatio...